The less I code on my own time the more that lack of attention to detail at work eats away at me. @@ -52,7 +56,8 @@ date: 2025-02-08
This is a circuitous way of coming back around to the fact that we are kept busy. Needlessly so. - Taking time that could be used improving our lives, learning, growing, living, and just gobbling it up with work to enrich people that we will never meet. + Taking time that could be used improving our lives, learning, growing, living, and just gobbling it up with work to + enrich people that we will never meet. Not helping society, likely causing damage in all honesty. Consuming needless resources, crushing small businesses and third party sellers.
@@ -64,6 +69,7 @@ date: 2025-02-08 Time for hobbies, friends, any time of just doing nothing, sleep.- I can't stand capitalism and its endless gluttony for more. - I am disgusted to be a part of this system, but don't have the energy required or the time to walk away at the moment in any sort of sustainable fashion. + I can't stand this endless focus on growth and gluttony for more. + I am disgusted to be a part of this system, but don't have the energy required or the time to walk away at the + moment in any sort of sustainable fashion.
diff --git a/posts/LetAmericaGo.html b/posts/LetAmericaGo.html deleted file mode 100644 index 11261d3..0000000 --- a/posts/LetAmericaGo.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -id: lag -title: Let America Go -previous: ct -next: conundrum -date: 2025-01-22 ---- -- With Trump now solidly re-installed as the president of America, what so many of us have feared has come to pass. - In his first days he took the country back years by rolling back all sorts of human rights, regulations, and protections. - He has not hit Canada with tariffs yet, though has still expressed that he plans to. -
-- America has been central to the lives of so many people in so many countries. - Even if you can avoid thinking about the country itself for a day, so much of what we do has to pass through their economy. - Silicon valley owns most large methods of communication, investments all pass through wall street, payments through Visa and Mastercard. - The US is the largest buyer of so much of what other countries export. -
-- So we have no choice but to pay attention, and have a lot of our lives and economies dictated by what is going on in the US. - I think that is a failing on all of our parts for allowing it to get to this point. - Now we rely on an unstable and unpredictable country for international stability. - Well I guess that we can predict that things will probably go against any sort of human rights, climate action, worker protections, human rights. - So it will likely only get worse. -
-- Whether tariffs are enforced or not the rest of the world needs to let America go as the center of every transaction, policy, or infrastructure. - Build stronger ties between the rest of us. - Infrastructure and businesses that don't rely on the US. -
-- They are not going to make anything better. - More CO2 will get put into the atmosphere, the tech companies will make their experiences worse, I suspect the beautiful natural world in the US is done for. - So we all need to be the bigger people in the room. - Do better to try and offset the horrible effect that it will have on our planet and our economies. - Help each other and the natural world to be as stable as possible through this time. -
-- Open our doors and arms to the wonderful people of the US that are persecuted, or just don't agree with the government and want to leave. - Ignore their government's raging and complaining if trade slows or their businesses suffer because we don't use them. - In some ways this seems like a tantrum, and sometimes we just need to let it play out and do our best to take care of ourselves and eachother. -
-- I don't have suggestions for exactly what to do, but for the last few days (the first of this new presidency) this is what has been on my mind. -
diff --git a/templates/Tak.html b/templates/Tak.html index 1ebda26..133f5f4 100755 --- a/templates/Tak.html +++ b/templates/Tak.html @@ -108,9 +108,5 @@ I am pleased with how the game turned out. I am working on other things at the moment but in the future I would like to do two more things with this game. I want to implement it online so that I can play with friends over the internet. - I would also like to try and develop an A.I. - agent to play the game. - I had this in mind when I was writing it so made sure that the GUI was disconnected from the actual mechanics behind the game. - This will hopefully make it easier to connect to an agent for training. {% endblock %} diff --git a/templates/about.html b/templates/about.html index dbbeb46..016b875 100644 --- a/templates/about.html +++ b/templates/about.html @@ -48,7 +48,6 @@I would like to do the same with more of life eventually. - Work, food, electricity. Try to make and fix things instead of buying or replacing them. That thought feels right.
diff --git a/templates/now.html b/templates/now.html index 5cab95e..659e832 100644 --- a/templates/now.html +++ b/templates/now.html @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ {% block content %}- Last updated: 2025-03-27 + Last updated: 2025-04-08
@@ -47,14 +47,16 @@
- Shifting my attention back to adding content to my personal website. - I have been having a bit of an ongoing moral crisis with the state of the tech industry at the moment. - First I want to get my thoughts clarified and down in writing. - Then I want to see what I can do about it and how I can contribute to a user centric web. + Have been working mostly on the website for our wedding. + It has been a lot of fun, added magic links, more interactiviy both from the guest and admin side. + Menu selections have been the most recent thing as well as linking the admin page to Mailgun so that we can send out customized emails to groups of guests. + For now that is private as it contains personal information. + I am starting to think that it would be fun to rewrite and generalize more to an event planning and coordination tool.
- Have been spending most of my tinkering time on a private project. - Have learned a lot, still web development, using HTMX for speed. + There is a lot that I would do differently, and building and using it now has tought me a lot. + It is both a wonderful and terrible feeling looking back on past work and thinking that "I would do this completely differently". + It reminds me that I have learned a lot, but don't have the time currently to fully rewrite/redesign it.
Awstin diff --git a/templates/uses.html b/templates/uses.html index e8209e5..f77d2f2 100644 --- a/templates/uses.html +++ b/templates/uses.html @@ -33,10 +33,11 @@ Phone: Samsung Galaxy A20, got it used. Gets the job done.